Not a lot of news on the Diamondbacks front, as we're generally just waiting for time to pass until pitchers and catchers report next month.
Diamondbacks News:
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[Yahoo! Sports] D'backs may be defined by Reynolds trade - Yahoo is looking at every team's offseason, and they give their rundown on the Diamondbacks here. It starts with an interesting note- of the 20 pitchers who threw for the DBacks in 2008, every one of them is gone from the roster. I wonder if there's any other team in the league who has had such turnover.
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[Scout.com] Gibby to Emulate Sparky - Kirk Gibson won his first World Series ring under the guidance of Sparky Anderson in 1984, and he'll look to Sparky as a role model in his first full season as a manager.
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[DBacks Venom] Diamondbacks Off-Season Recap: Middle Infield - DBacks Venom continues the look at our team with what is probably the brightest spot from 2010, Kelly Johnson and Stephen Drew.
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[Sports Haze] 15 Questions the Arizona Diamondbacks Face in 2011 - Not explicitly mentioned, but I assume implied, is whether or not this will finally be the year that Baxter and Pope Dinger I fight in a cage match. (If the team is looking for a date, I hear March 26 would be a good start.)
Around Baseball:
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[ESPN] Matt Murton makes it happen in Japan - Ichiro's Japanese single season hit record was toppled this year, by Matt Murton. Wait, who? I find Japanese baseball kind of fascinating, so this was interesting to me.
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[Hardball Times] 10,000 days since Toronto’s most embarrassing loss. - Which would you say is more embarrassing- three runners picked off first in the tenth inning, or the balk-off loss?
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[FanGraphs] Best Bunts of 2010 - A look at the bunts that made the biggest impact for their team in 2010, as measured by WPA. Craig Counsell appears on the list, and, um, the Diamondbacks are involved in the #1 bunt. Maybe you should skip that one.
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[Beyond the Box Score] Hall of Fame Population, By Position - A graphic showing who's in the Hall of Fame by position and by WAR. While it's interesting to see the breakdown by position, the classifications by WAR were more interesting to me. Are catchers underrated by the stat?